help redesigning my grow room.

whats up folks, so heres the deal I have a room that is 7x11x7' tall. right now i'm running it in a vertical staduim you can see here https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/391403-dukes-3000w-purple-stadium.html. I have doubts on the out come of this system and I"m concerened with the high plant count of have 42 flowering and 45-50 veg then a fistful of mothers, it just to many.heres what kind of gear i have and I'm wondering what would you do with IT???

3 - 1000 switchable ballast
1 - 600 ballast
1 - 400 ballast
2 6" cooltubes
2 8" cooltubes
1 6" radiant reflector
18 pot ebb& gro system
5000 btu window AC
16 pint dehumidifier
3 - 6" vortex type fans
1 8" fan
can filter 150
and meters/ fans ect a bunch of other shit I'm sure i dont even think of.

SOOOOOO....... WTF would you do ?????

If you are not a cash cropper, I'd make three rooms, two 5' x 5' for bloom and a work area/veg/clone room all along the long dimension of the big room. Flower out your mothers and just take clones from the vegging plants just as they go into bloom. You could build out the rooms like you did the stadium shelving but since you are doing it with room walls, the staggered spacing when adjacent to the next rooms staggered wall could make a veg/clone cubby space. You could pimp it with drawer rails on a pull out shelf near ground level. You would be pulling this out into the hallway that connects all the rooms.

what if I am a "cash cropper" ???????

Then it's unusual to hear, "it's just too many plants" from a cash cropper. Right up there with, "it's just too much money."

Draw up some rough layout plans, keep in mind the space you will need for all the ducting and fans.

I would have 2 rooms, veg and flower - if you want to stick with the stadium design, putting htem back to back like rosepapa said sounds good for the extra space.

Since you have an air con and a dehumidifier, maybe design it such that the air comes into the veg room first which is cooled by the air con and dehumidified, then the air from this room is exhausted to the flower room, the air being set at a nice temp and humidity already. Then the air is exhausted from the flower room via the carbon filter and outside.

Veg room gets 1 x 1000 Watt light in a cooltube
Flower room gets 2 x 1000 watt lights in cooltube

Then distribute the rest of the lights as you see fit between the 2 rooms.

Aim to have less plants, so they dont choke each other out fighting for light and yeilding small

Maybe post a rough plan of the room minus the grow setup thats there now... with where the windows and doors are ect. that we can draw over

Too many plants? What a terrible problem. I really feel for you OP.

it is a terrible problem when you have to kill a heap of plants that you have been caring for for months to make room...
not to mention all the power and neuts they have been chewing up going to waste

Plebscrubber said:

it is a terrible problem when you have to kill a heap of plants that you have been caring for for months to make room...
not to mention all the power and neuts they have been chewing up going to waste

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Why would you kill plants? To make room for what? More plants?
They're not wasting power and nutes if they're producing bud.

because as they get bigger they are shadowing over each other, denying the half the plants of direct light
you end up with a heap of plants making small crappy buds, if you drop the numbers the plants have room to soak up more light and make bigger buds
they also waste growth on streatching trying to get out of the shade of the other plants
also reducing air flow thru the cramped canopy

theres only so many plants that can grow effectivley in a set area, you cant just cram in as many as you want in a small space

that the main problem with the way the stadium is now all the plants are bushed out so much that there covering each other and fighting for the light. Plus the plant mass is so much that the humidity is crazy when lights go out.

the room its self is just a rectangle that 7x11 the door swings out of the room and is in the center of the 7 foot side with the AC mounted in the wall next to it.

my first thought was to run the ebb&gro system with between 6 & 9 plants under each 1000, just kinda spaced out enought to get good light an air flow. then keeping the 400 on a few moms in a tent in the corner.

mrduke said:

that the main problem with the way the stadium is now all the plants are bushed out so much that there covering each other and fighting for the light. Plus the plant mass is so much that the humidity is crazy when lights go out.

the room its self is just a rectangle that 7x11 the door swings out of the room and is in the center of the 7 foot side with the AC mounted in the wall next to it.

my first thought was to run the ebb&gro system with between 6 & 9 plants under each 1000, just kinda spaced out enought to get good light an air flow. then keeping the 400 on a few moms in a tent in the corner.

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Why don't you just veg for a shorter period with the stadium and trim as necessary? Way better than spending money redoing your whole room.

I went to the hydro shop today to talk to the owner, He's a smart guy who really knows his shit about growing. And he suggested running two 4x6 trays filled with sunshine#4 then top feed every 3-4 days. this is what he does and pulls 2.5 per light, grated he use 4x8 not 4x6 so i'd be short about 3 plants per tray but have better light coverage. He says after a run or two anyone can get the same results and best of all, all i need to buy is the 2 trays @ 99 bucks each oh yeah and the sunshine mix. I'm not going to do anything just yet, if the stadium does better than i think it will I may try one more run with a better strain.